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...With six weeks of campaigning to go for 282 seats in the next, enlarged House of Commons,* a new Gallup poll had the Liberals and the Tories running in a dead heat, each with 41% of the popular favor. Since the Liberals' support is disproportionately concentrated in Quebec, this suggested that the Tories would enjoy a thin overall margin in the race for parliamentary seats, although an unusually high percentage of voters remain undecided. Just as the Liberals are expected to sweep Quebec, the Tories are overwhelmingly dominant in the Western provinces. Thus the election will probably...
...energy squeeze. The President's speech was widely praised in other oil-consuming countries, and the mere anticipation of what he was going to say sent the dollar soaring in Japan, gold slumping in Europe and stock prices on Wall Street leaping to their best levels in six months...
While the Airbus consortium itself is not yet a giant, it is quickly becoming an important source of jobs as well as pride in Europe. Production at the final assembly plant in Toulouse, France, is scheduled to increase from 2.3 planes a month to six by 1982. The consortium's payroll will rise from 17,000 to 40,000 in the four participating countries, which divvy up the manufacturing in rough proportion to their Airbus ownership-37.9% for both France and West Germany, 20% for Britain, and 4.2% for Spain. The four have invested some $3 billion...
When it comes to saving money, affluent people get a break. Those who put $10,000 or more into six-month money market certificates can collect interest at roughly 9.5%, while small savers are limited by law to earning only 5% from commercial banks and 5.25% from savings institutions on their passbook accounts. Last week federal banking authorities proposed new measures to redress this imbalance and encourage saving...
Last week Evans came within six hours of getting just what he planned for. Condemned to die, he had finished eating his last supper a few yards away from the electric chair in Holman prison near Atmore, Ala., when a last-minute appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court won him a stay of execution. Evans did not ask for it; his mother did. Evans had told reporters that his death would be the "one constructive, positive act in a blasted life...